Re: RARA-AVIS: Willeford

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 30 Jan 2004


Geir,

Re your comment below:

> I've seen this allegation before. How certain is it?
> As far as I've been
> able to establish, Sheldon Lord was a house name
> with a lot of writers
> behind the name. I've got an SL book on my shelves,
> but how can I find
> out if it's really Lawrence Block who wrote this
> book in his youth? He
> would never admit anything of the sort.

I don't know whether or not Lawrence Block was among the writers who wrote as "Sheldon Lord," but he has admitted to writing softcore porn as a way of keeping the wolf from the door back in the day.

JIM DOHERTY

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